As the country's highest appellate court, the Supreme Court of Canada produces the nation's most authoritative jurisprudence. Since its initial publication in 1980, the Supreme Court Law Review offers a thorough analysis of key decisions by the Supreme Court, while critically examining the soundness of those decisions. This highly regarded title remains one of the top annual publications in law libraries and institutions across Canada and worldwide.

Now in its second series, the Supreme Court Law Review publishes 4-5 times a year.

This collection includes 12 papers developed out of a conference held in 2017 ("The Canadian Law of Obligations: Innovations, Innovators and the Next 20 Years") together with a Foreword by The Honourable Justice Russell Brown. The papers included in this collection examine emerging issues, themes, and controversies within the Canadian Law of Obligations and provide diverse perspectives about a range of subjects including the limits and potential development of public authority liability, affirmative duties and omissions, the role of rights in private law, the protection of privacy, good faith, and causation in contract and tort. The collected papers revisit seminal cases together with recent legal developments, and explore the potential for new approaches to old problems.

This volume is dedicated to the late Justice Allen Linden, Q.C.

Featured authors

Margaret Isabel Hall

Margaret Isabel Hall

Margaret Isabel Hall, B.A. (Hons), LL.B., LL.M.,Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Thompson Rivers University, British Columbia, Canada where she teaches Torts, Advanced Torts, and Wills and Estates. Prior to joining Thompson Rivers as a founding faculty member, Prof. Hall taught torts at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, and the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (Common Law), Prof. Hall has also worked in law reform (for the British Columbia Law Institute), and is the author of numerous law reform publications. Prof. Hall is the co-author of the Law of Nuisance in Canada, published by LexisNexis in 2010 (first edition) and 2015 (second edition). In 2018. a volume edited by Prof. Hall titled The Canadian Law of Obligations: Private Law for the 21st Century was published by LexisNexis and was also published in that same year as a special volume of the Supreme Court Law Reports. Prof. Hall has published extensively in the area of tort law, with a focus on nuisance, the principle from Rylands v. Fletcher, theories of systemic liability in tort law, vicarious liability, and public authority liability. Prof. Hall’s work has been cited by Canadian appellate and trial courts and in law reform reports in Canada and Australia. In addition to tort law, Prof. Hall has also published extensively on issues relating to mental capacity in the law. Prof. Hall is a Visiting Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Macquarie University Faculty of Law in Sydney, Australia in 2018.